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Courts of juftice are to be cIlabliHicd in every county 

 throughout the ftate. 



The fupretne court, and the fcveral courts of common 

 pleas of this ftate, befides the powers ufually cxercifed by 

 fuch courts, have the powers of a court of chancery, fo far 

 as relates to perpetuating teftimony, obtaining evidence from 

 places not within the ftate, and the care of the perfons and 

 eftates of thofe who are non compotes mentis, &c. All profe- 

 cutions are to be commenced in the name, and by the autho- 

 rity of the freemen of the ftate of Vermont. The legiflature 

 is to regulate entails fo as to prevent perpetuities. 



All field and ftaff-officers, and commiflioned officers of the 

 army, and all general officers of the mihtia, (hall be chofen 

 by the general aifembly, and be commiffioncd by the 

 governor. 



Common fchools and academics are liberally encouraged 

 in Vermont; and in 1800 a college was incorporated in 

 Middleburg, which is now in a flouriftiing ftate. See 

 College. Morfe. Melifh. 



VERN, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Dordogne ; 10 miles S. of Perigueux. — Alfo, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Mayne and Loire ; 6 miles 

 S. of Segre. 



Vekn', or Vernde, or IVerna, a town of Weftplialia, 

 in the biftiopric of Paderborn ; 2 miles W.N.W. of Sal/- 

 kotten. 



VERNACIA, Vexacla, Ven'iatia, Venwtin, or Vent- 

 ana, in jtncient Geography, a town of Spain, uiiou the route 

 from Bracara to Ailuria, between Complutica and Pctavo- 

 nium. Anton. Itin. 



VERNACULAR is applied to any thing that is pecu- 

 liar to fome one country. 



Whence, difeafes which reign moil in any particular na- 

 tion, province, or diftrift, are fomctimes called vernacular 

 difeafes; though more frequently fw//m;V difeafes. 



Such are the plica Polonica, Jcorbiitus , tarantifm, &c. 



VERNAL, fomething belonging to the Ipring feafon. 

 (See Spring.) Hence, vernal leaves are tliofe leaves of 

 plants which come up in the fpring, &c. 



Vernal Signs and Equinox. See Sign and Equinox. 



Vernal Grafs, in Botany. See Anthoxanthum, and 

 S'WT.s.T-fcenlett Vernal Grafs. 



Vernal, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Pacific ocean, 

 near the coaft of Mexico. N. lat. 16' 35'. W. long. 



95° 50'. 



VERNAMO, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Smaland ; 35 miles N.W. of Wexio. 



VERNANTOIS, a town of France, in the department of 

 "the .Tura ; 3 miles S. of Lons le Saulnier. 



VERNASSA, a town of Genoa; 5 miles S.W. of 

 Spezza. 



VERNE, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Doubs ; 3 miles N.of Beaiime les Dames. 



VERNET, Joseph, in Biography, the beft landfcape 

 painter of the French fchool, was born at Avignon in 1 7 12. 

 He was educated in his native country, and afterwards fent 

 to Rome, where he ftudied under Adrian Manglard, a painter 

 of fea-pieces and landfcapes of fome note. He foon fur- 

 paffed his inftruftor, and the ftyle which he adopted was as 

 elofe an imitation of nature as he knew how to make ; and 

 his views of Rome and Naples, &c. will always plcafe, from 

 the frelhnefs and fpirit with which they are painted. His 

 colouring, however, is not exaftly true ; the hues are too 

 pofitive and crude, and lack the foftnefs and delicacy of 

 Claude or Wilfon ; but his compofitions are excellently 

 arranged, and he gave great truth of aftion to water ; he 

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alfo adorned his pifturcs with groups of figures, arranged 

 with tafte and freely executed. 



He remained many years in Italy, till at length the repu- 

 tation he had acquired induced Louis XIV. to invite him 

 to return to France, where he was engaged to paint a fet of 

 views of the fea-ports of that kingdom. However correft 

 thefe views may be, it is evident that Vernet did not labour 

 con amore at them, as they by no means rival the pictures he 

 painted of other fubjefts, where he was more free to follow 

 his own tafte. He was very much employed and honoured, 

 and enjoyed the exercife of his talents till he arrived at the 

 age of 77, when he died, in 1786. 



Vernet, in 'Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Eaft Pyrenees ; 4 miles S. of Prades. 



Vernet k Bas, a town of France, in the department of 

 tlie Allier ; 1 3 miles N. of Digne. 



VERNEUIL, a town of France, and principal place of 

 a diilrift, in the department of the Eure ; 18 miles W. of 

 Dreux. N. lat. 48° 43'. E. long. i'. — Alfo, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Allier; 15 miles E. of 

 Montmarault. 



VERNEY, Guichakd-Josepii du, in Biography, an 

 eminent anatomift, was the fon of a phyfician at Feurs in 

 Forez, and born in 1648. From Avignon, where he ftu- 

 died medicine for five years, he removed to Paris in 1667, 

 and there acquired high reputation, not only as an anatomical 

 demonftrator, but as an eloquent lefturer. His manner was 

 ardent and interefting, and this, together with his youth and 

 agreeable perfon, rendered the ftudy of anatomy fafliionable. 

 After his admiflion into the Academy of Sciences in 1676, 

 he employed himfelf in an affiduous profecution of I he na- 

 tural hillory oi animals, and the refult of his refearches may 

 be found in the Memoirs of the Academy. About this time 

 he was engaged in communicating anatomical inftruftion to 

 the dauphin and his learned attendants ; and in 1679 he was 

 nominated profeftor of anatomy at the Royal Gardens, where 

 his auditors were very numerous, many of whom were 

 foreigners. In this and the following year he was occupied 

 in Lower Brittany and on the coaft of Baj-onne in the diftec- 

 tion of fifties. His work entitled " Traite de I'Organe de 

 I'Ouie, contenant le Strufture, les Ufages, et les Maladies 

 de toutes les Parties de TOreille," was publifhed in 1683, 

 and tranllated into various languages. In his anatomical 

 refearches he was indefatigable, and he made many difco- 

 veries, the honour of which has been claimed by others. 

 Having abfented himfelf for a long time from the meetings 

 of the Academy, he returned to it again, in his 80th year, 

 on the repubhcation of his Hiftory of Animals, and entered 

 into its bufinefs with his former vivacity. In advanced age 

 he undertook a work on ir.fefts and reptiles ; and though 

 he was afflifted with a pulmonary complaint, he expofed 

 himfelf to the injurious effefts of the damp and night air, 

 in order to obferve the aftions of fnails, with a view to the 

 perfeAion of the w'ork in which he was engaged. Although 

 his health could not but be impaired by this pradlice, his life 

 was prolonged to his Szd year, as he died in September 

 1730. He bequeathed his valuable anatomical preparations 

 to the Academy, leaving a character held in high eftimation 

 by contemporary anatomifts and phyfiologifts, and by all who 

 had enjoyed the benefit of his inftruftion in their youth. 

 After his death, Senac pubhftied from his MSS. " Traite des 

 Maladies des Os," in 2 vols. l2rao. ; and all his memoirs and 

 pofthumous papers were collefted in his " CEuvres Ana- 

 tomiques," 2 vols. 410. Paris, 1761, publifiicd by Berlin, to 

 whom his MS. remains were entrufted by Senac. Haller. 

 Gen. Biog. 



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